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Originally Posted by Graham
I see what you're saying and, yes, I can agree with it up to a point, the question is, now, though, whether England are actually a "super side" or they've just come along at the right time when the Aussies are on the decline.
Possibly, but there again, how much of that depended on a few devastating pace bowlers plus some good batsmen
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England are still a long way from a 'super side' . The more I think about the more I am coming to think that neither is the current Aussie side. This test series is without doubt the first time ever that they have been faced with a high quality , four pronged, pace attack. I cannot believe that seven front line batsmen can all lose form at the exact same moment, They came into the series with the top six boasting a test average of around 50, but finished the series with the top seven averaging just over 30, so perhaps they were never as invincible as we all thought.
And as for the Windies it was hardly a few, as good as the current England attack is, perm any four from Roberts, Holding, Marshall, Garner, Walsh, Ambrose, Patterson, Clarke etc, etc, and you have an attack that makes the England bowlers look like pussy cats in comparison. I also think that Haynes, Greenidge, Lloyd, Kallicharan [sp] Richards, Hooper, would be a far better batting line up as well.